Hypnosis can minimize hot flashes, which affect around 80% of women during menopause, by as much as 74%, according to a new trial published in the journal Menopause. The randomized, controlled study was the first to look at hypnosis as a method of helping control hot flashes.

Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that cometogether to influence the course of our illness. Additional medicalconditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact on our

In his brilliant 1993 satire Et Tu, Babe, Mark Leyner proposed a new concept in body art, which is the specialty of visceral tattoos. The narrator travels to Mexico where his chest is opened and the insignia of a guy surfing a wave of lava, wearing polka-dotted trunks, is tattooed directly on his heart. The dye used shows up on CT scans and apparently women, especially x-ray technicians, love it. Superficially, a jest at those who indelibly paint their skin, Leynors parody is an allegory to the brutal invasiveness of healthcare. Going even further, we must understand that medicine often causes deep injury beyond that of the flesh. That injury is a tattoo of the mind.